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From the Wall Street Journal reporter
who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran
nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s
decades-long power struggle with the United States—for readers of Steve
Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower

For more than a decade, the United States has been engaged in a war
with Iran as momentous as any other in the Middle East—a war all the
more significant as it has largely been hidden from public view. Through
a combination of economic sanctions, global diplomacy, and intelligence
work, successive U.S. administrations have struggled to contain Iran’s
aspirations to become a nuclear power and dominate the region—what many
view as the most serious threat to peace in the Middle East. Meanwhile,
Iran has used regional instability to its advantage to undermine
America’s interests. The Iran Wars is an absorbing account of a battle waged on many levels—military, financial, and covert.

Jay Solomon’s book is the product of extensive in-depth reporting and
interviews with all the key players in the conflict—from high-ranking
Iranian officials to Secretary of State John Kerry and his negotiating
team. With a reporter’s masterly investigative eye and the narrative
dexterity of a great historian, Solomon shows how Iran’s nuclear
development went unnoticed for years by the international community only
to become its top security concern. He catalogs the blunders of both
the Bush and Obama administrations as they grappled with how to engage
Iran, producing a series of both carrots and sticks. And he takes us
inside the hotel suites where the 2015 nuclear agreement was negotiated,
offering a frank assessment of the uncertain future of the U.S.-Iran
relationship.

This is a book rife with revelations, from the
secret communications between the Obama administration and the Iranian
government to dispatches from the front lines of the new field of
financial warfare. For readers of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, The Iran Wars exposes
the hidden history of a conflict most Americans don’t even realize is
being fought, but whose outcome could have far-reaching geopolitical
implications.

Praise for The Iran Wars
“The use of the word ‘wars,’ plural, in the title of this illuminating
book tells the story: U.S.-Iranian relations have been troubled for many
years. This deeply researched account of negotiations and their
implications makes an important contribution to understanding the short-
and long-term consequences of how we manage this difficult
relationship.”—George P. Shultz, former secretary of state

“An illuminating, deeply reported account from one of the best journalists writing about the Middle East today. Jay Solomon’s TheIran Wars
offers a front-row view of the spy games, assassinations, political
intrigue and high-stakes diplomacy that have defined relations with one
of America’s most cunning and dangerous foes.”—Joby Warrick, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

“A
thorough yet concise survey of Iran’s buildup of nuclear technology
since the 1980s, its troubling exporting of Shiite insurgency in
countries around it, and the changing American reaction. Wall Street Journal
chief foreign affairs correspondent [Jay] Solomon offers an evenhanded
look at the backdoor schemes involving the building of Iran’s nuclear
weapons and the world players involved in and against its machinations.”—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)